November 21, 2005

Surdex mapping firm official charged with bribery

A federal grand jury indicted the vice president of a Chesterfield-based aerial mapping firm Friday on charges that he bribed a public official to win government contracts.Russell Hoffmann, 48, of St. Charles, the vicepresident of Surdex Corp., faces four bribery chargesin an indictment handed up in Omaha, Neb.Surdex performed more than $6 million worth of aerial mapping for the Corps of Engineers in Omaha, according to the indictment. See more at the St. Louis Dispatch - http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/86A033B19565FB8E862570BE00148F2E?OpenDocument